The challenging aim of the IDAS project was an automatic telephone directory
assistance service to the public over the telephone network. The built
demonstration system is based on state-of-the-art speech
technology, i.e. large-vocabulary speech recognition, mixed-language
text-to-speech synthesis, and intelligent dialogue management (cf.
[LS00]).

IDAS was a project of the Telematics Applications Programme, sector Language
Engineering, of the 4th EU Framework Programme. For more information about
IDAS, please consult the
project homepage.